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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Jul 8, 1965

I spent some time discussing fiscal matters with the Secretary of the Treasury yesterday.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Jul 7, 1965

It is a great pleasure to have the leadership that we have present with us here this morning.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Jul 7, 1965

There is hereby established the Vietnam Service Medal with suitable appurtenances.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Jul 7, 1965

And by faithfully honoring our agreements, by faithfully keeping our treaties to which we are party, we seek to assure substance for the dream of a world that is ruled by law.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Jul 2, 1965

We hated to see him leave the legislative halls, but we are glad to see him preside in the temples of justice.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Jul 2, 1965

I don't know of anyone that is missed more from Washington than this wonderful Thornberry family.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Jul 2, 1965

There is no more courageous person, no better and finer human being, and no man with a greater sense of justice and fairness and feeling of equality for all human beings, wherever they live, whatever their color, or whatever their…

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Jul 1, 1965

I will propose a National Teachers Corps to enlist thousands of dedicated teachers to work alongside local teachers in city slums and in areas of rural poverty where they can really serve their Nation.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Jul 1, 1965

For the process of learning is not a carefully defined and isolated segment of a person's life.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Jul 1, 1965

The time for talking and dreaming and philosophizing and writing platforms is gone, and the time for doing things instead of talking about them is here.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Jul 1, 1965

In every corner of this world in which we live, not only our democracy but the idea of democracy itself is today being challenged.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Jul 1, 1965

And it is up to you to make that education equal to our towering expectations of the America that we love and the America that is to come.

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